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Best of YouTube - Plastic Bags
Last week we shared the latest plastic bag clip from youtube -- a mockumentary -- and our facebook fans shared some of their favorite plastic bag clips. Here's a larger collection!
Friday Flotsam and Jetsam
This week we've been watching reactions to KUOW's reports on the Puget Sound Partnership, as well as looking at pretty pictures of Puget Sound and wondering how many names an orca needs...
Friday Flotsam and Jetsam
This week we've got lots of oyster stories, which is funny because they are dependent on water quality and it's also National Water Quality Month. What a coinky-dink! Plus, I found a new favorite photoblog, and there's a new baby orca.
Living on the edge
Last week I volunteered as a naturalist at one of People For Puget Sound’s fabulous pier peer events. I know why I love attending these events (I’m a nature nerd) but I was curious about why other participants chose to come and what they got out of the experience.
Some Days It's Hard To Be An Environmentalist
News today is that the Gulf Gusher is at an end and we should be thankful for that. I’m not sure we can be as sanguine as Carol Browner in pronouncing that 75 percent of the oil that gushed for 100 days is gone—scooped, burned, dispersed, evaporated, eaten by microbes.
Friday Flotsam and Jetsam
Although the BP Gulf gusher is capped, this week we heard about spills in China and Michigan. It makes us glad we have the Neah Bay tug on call, so we can enjoy local seafood, like tasty tasty Dungeness crab...
Plastics in our mouths, oceans
This spring, I joined Heather Trim and about seventy bright eyed and bushy tailed folks from all around Puget Sound in Port Townsend for the Citizen Science Summit on Plastics Pollution in the Salish Sea. It's a mouthful of a name for what turned out to be a day and a half of intense discussion and sharing between a wide variety of people all concerned about one thing: little bits of plastic in our oceans, and on our beaches.
Friday Flotsam and Jetsam
This week the 2010 Tribal Canoe Journeys wrapped up in Neah Bay with 100 canoes from Puget Sound and western Canada. We've also seen some news on restoration around the sound -- we like restoration, and now we've got an impressive number for the value of nature: our Puget Sound ecosystem provides us with $10 to 83 billion of water and air filtration flood protection, and other services.
Friday Flotsam and Jetsam
This week is a lot of bad news for shellfish and shellfish fanciers -- red tide means you can't eat them now, and ocean acidification may mean you can't eat them later...
Friday Flotsam & Jetsam
This weeks' roundup of interest from the internet: good news and bad news on bacteria, Hood Canal, beach access and driftwood, hybrid tugboats and even a job option!